Life Quotes

At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.

Nathan C. Schaeffe

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

Henry David Thoreau

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

Andre Malraux

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Nikki Giovanni

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it.

Bob Newhart

Love is the very essence of life.

Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

W. R. Inge

There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.

Francis Bacon

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Booth Luce

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Ayn Rand

A man without trust is a man without life.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English prove

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.

Johann von Goethe

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Horace, Satires

Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Frederika Breme

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Sophocles

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

Juvenal, Satires

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett